CVE-2023-23921 (GCVE-0-2023-23921)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-02-17 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-02 10:42
VLAI
Title
Moodle: reflected xss risk in some returnurl parameters
Summary
The vulnerability was found Moodle which exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data in some returnurl parameters. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website. This flaw allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Affected: 4.1.0 , < 4.1.1 (semver)
Affected: 4.0.0 , < 4.0.6 (semver)
Affected: 3.11.0 , < 3.11.12 (semver)
Affected: 0 , < 3.9.19 (semver)
Date Public
2023-01-23 04:00
Credits
Upstream acknowledges DegrangeM as the original reporter.
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